The Light In Me Recognizes The Light In You

I have always liked the aliens in Cocoon. Those gentle creatures of light fit my idea of what our inner essence would look like if I could see it. It is that part of each of us that I imagine reaching out and connecting before our brains even think of engaging.

Biologically it might emanate from my DNA to yours, triggering some little synapse that recognizes another member of the family automatically. Animals seem to sense some things. They appear to know when a creature is still young, puppies, babies, etc. And they seem to have a sense of who to stay away from before any outward signs of aggression appear to me. I think human beings have the same abilities. It's just that we have not nurtured ours, or even really accepted that they exist.

Younger people seem better at this than most of the elders I know. Apartment hunting, I have run across so many people and when our eyes connect, I sometimes feel this intense sense that we are kindred spirits in some way. I don't mean that we could live together, or anything so drastic, just that we kind of understand where the other one is coming from. It's a kind of basic respect for the life energy of the person I am looking at.

Then there are the others, those people I feel an intense attraction to, the really powerful kindred spirits, whose thoughts and actions are sometimes starkly familiar reflections of my own. Whether this is truly so, or only a yearning for it to be so, I would do almost anything for these people. There is an instinctual trust that comes naturally and a sort of deep love that says we are members of a real family. One united by things thicker than blood.

I can't explain this any better. It is more ephemeral than measurable, yet it is also so instinctual that I cannot deny it, unhindered by the illusion of time, distance, or any sort of space. The light in me recognizes the light in you and no matter how it is explained, the thoughts, meaning and feelings are the same.